Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great-scale violence and party dictatorship to a wiser role in the unions, but in politics to a bewilderingly opportunistic role. Their accent is on a half-baked immediate program." First excitement in the divided convention came when the Right delegation from New York appeared on the floor to claim seats already occupied by the Left delegation. A sergeant-at-arms stopped them. Pandemonium burst. Rightist leaders from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut began to shout together at this physical attempt to exclude their comrades from New York. Norman Thomas finally brought temporary peace by saying: "Mr. Chairman-since there doesn...
...more or less great dismay that the news had not yet seeped into New York, or at least the TIME offices, that Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was no longer a member of the Wells College faculty. 1 am prompted by utterly selfish motives to hasten to lay claim to Mr. Coffin for his alma mater, Bowdoin College...
...Never have I seen an institution called a 'school' which had so little claim to that name. Buildings are unfit for habitation-badly heated, rat infested, with inadequate sanitary facilities. Children are walled in like prisoners, in spite of ample grounds and beautiful views...
Criticized by the American Medical Association, badgered by the Federal Food & Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission, heckled by Consumers' Research, rebuffed by self-respecting magazines and newspapers when the extravagant claims of occasional products verged on quackery, members of the Proprietary Association two years ago organ-ized an "advisory committee on advertising" to censor the commercial announcements of all its members. Hired as censor-in-chief was Edward H. Gardner, onetime professor of Advertising & Marketing at University of Wisconsin, more recently a pundit for J. Walter Thompson Co. During the year, Censor Gardner reported, drug manufacturers submitted...
...paths of study? According to comments of present concentrators in many fields, the research man has his nose on the grindstone continually, is annoyed by pestering students. He will cooperate only with students who are scholars as he is; only a few exceptions are mentioned here. Mr. Conant's claim is that research will keep teachers alive and inspire them to keep abreast of their general field. Will it not rather bury them in one cubby hole in many cases...